Science news this week: Life on Mars, weird water and a curious human cousin
This week, we’ve taken one tantalizing step closer to finding out if there really was life on Mars, after NASA’s Perseverance rover uncovered the highest
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This week, we’ve taken one tantalizing step closer to finding out if there really was life on Mars, after NASA’s Perseverance rover uncovered the highest
A photograph of Earth glowing in deep space, the moon’s cratered horizon stretching across its foreground, caught many people’s eyes in April 2026. Astronauts captured
Ancient Roman transportation engineers built a vast network of roads that stretched across Europe, North Africa and parts of the Middle East. This complex road
Smog from cars and trucks is an expected health hazard in big cities, but researchers from the University of Cincinnati found pollution from truck exhaust
Newborn mice neurons can snap both DNA strands to migrate, then repair the breaks within a day. The process may be a normal part of
Who is responsible for AI’s output? Artificial intelligence (AI) companies like OpenAI maintain that they are not. In fact, their terms and conditions in 2023
With the aid of AI, scientists have identified a potential new antibiotic to treat gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted bacterial infection that’s increasingly resistant to drugs.
Researchers have created a new chip that turns one of quantum computing’s biggest frailties into a programmable feature. They say this first-of-its-kind experiment could carry
This image by ESA’s (European Space Agency) Euclid (with color added using ground-based images) provides an earlier snapshot of a region of our galaxy that
In 1947, Paul Erdős, the itinerant Hungarian mathematician, introduced what would become one of math’s most powerful tools. He wanted to prove that a certain
It takes a dozen or so hours for the mushroom to kick in. Then, the hallucinations are unlike any others known to science. On this
Empires have shaped human history, often growing from a single city or cultural group into territories spanning continents. Some empires rose through conquest, and others
China’s top-secret space plane just released another unknown object over Earth, raising concerns about exactly what the mysterious vehicle is up to. The clandestine spacecraft
New AI models are accelerating the game of cat-and-mouse as cybersecurity experts try to keep ahead of would-be hackers. An AI expert explains the risks.